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1921 U.S.S. Quiros cover Shanghai CHINA - Wisconsin USA

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Sold Date: 04/03/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Stamps

1921 U.S.S. Quiros cover Shanghai CHINA toWisconsin USA

For auction is a 1921 cover posted in Hankow (Hankou), Republic of China on 24 July 1921; franked with two (2) US carmine, 2-cent Washington stamps and two (2) Republic of China stamps: one green, 3-cent stamp depicting a Chinese junk boat and one brown, 13-cent stamp depicting a Chinese farmer scene.

This cover has the return address green-stamped “U.S.S. Quiros” and is back-posted in Shanghai on 27 July 1921. It was delivered to the “Service Recognition Board, Madison, Wisconsin USA.” For more information on the USS Quiros, see below:

USS Quiros (PG-40) , a schooner rigged composite gunboat , was laid down for the Spanish Navy by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company , Hong Kong , China in June 1894; launched in early 1895; captured by the U.S. Army at Manila in 1898; acquired by the Navy 21 February 1900; and commissioned at Cavite Navy Yard on 14 March 1900; Lt. P. J. Werlich in command.

The warship was interned at Shanghai on 5 May 1917 after the U.S. entry into World War I , but an international agreement on the protection of nationals in China allowed her to resume patrolling in August. USS Quiros decommissioned at Shanghai on 10 August 1923 and was used as a target until sunk by destroyer gunfire off the China coast 16 October 1923.

U.S.S. Quiros web site: /wiki/USS_Quiros_(PG-40)

I am offering this cover from my grandfather's collection. No Reserve!

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